Apple showcases new Books app

Our first glimpse of Apple Books, the app that will supersede iBooks this fall, was at WWDC last week, but Apple today gave us the grand tour in a new, in-depth preview of the upcoming revamp of its e-book platform.

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Apple has shared a preview of the new Apple Books app coming to iPhone and iPad with iOS 12. The redesigned app will replace iBooks this fall. “Apple Books will inspire a love of reading — it puts a world of books and audiobooks right at your fingertips, whether you want to dive into your favorite story for a couple of minutes or a few hours,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software & Services

Apple quietly rolled out a new set of rules for developers last week, adding restrictions for apps that suck up the address books of iPhone users, Bloomberg reports. Developers could, for example, sell the databases filled with your friends' contact information to boost their bottom lines. No more.

Apple is continually listening to its users, and it always tries to improve privacy and security on its operating systems, so it recently added new policies to ban the harvesting of users' address books in apps.

Apple’s new App Store privacy guidelines restricting apps that collect data on users’ friends—specifically, the address books of iPhone users—already seemed to be in large part a response to Facebook’s sprawling Cambridge Analytica data scandal.